Which auto responder aweb… or gvo?

It is a difficult question.  Aweber are one of the premier email solution providers.  They are a company I have used in the past, and can not fault on customer service or delivery.

I still visit their blog to pick up tips and tricks!  They do know the email marketing business inside out.  Below is a feed from the blog, so you can see what I mean. 

Don’t go just yet… There is valuable information to know first, in this post!

Plus and I must point this out, I still have an affiliate account with them. My connection is not severed.   A recent major improvement they have made is to the web form for name capture. 

Now users can really go to town with style and format, and design the perfect form for their websites. Before it was a much more simple and basic affair.  But now the competitions hotting up and they have,  had to pull a few tricks out of their hat!

I used to use the connection between Aweber and XsitePro the website design software,  for my form creation.  Xsite would provide the design and Aweb.. The code, and it worked fine every time.

Now this is a review so what is the downside of using them for your email delivery provider?  For me personally price!  And price is a biggie in any business.  When my list tops 5000 + the price is $50 dollars monthly and when my list,  or to be more realistic my lists top 10,000 +  email subscribers the monthly cost rises to $130 dollars a month. 

 These figures are accurate as of  November 2009. Bearing in mind that 5ooo subscribers is not an unreasonable amount of email clients, it is an achievable figure using good marketing techniques!  So that is $50 dollars plus Hosting costs.  

To my way of thinking if I could reduce costs yet still maintain the same high standard of email delivery,  wouldn’t that be the right way forward?

Now the Gogvo Auto Responder, or as it is referred to in-house the Eresponder or Eresponder Pro.  Truth be told it got off to a slightly rocky start in the beta testing phase.  Considering all the sweeping changes and updating of systems the Tech Guys can be forgiven for a few gremlins in the works.  

They sorted out all, the issues fast.  That is a major advantage of owning all the software  in-house! The C.E.O. of Virtual Global Opportunities  (Joel Therien)  has publicly  stated on more than one occasion, that he intends his email software to be better than Aweb… and I have a feeling he may be right! 

All the gogvo tools  have undergone a transformation, in terms of updating and revamping and the eresponder pro email auto responder  system is no exception.   

  The Gvo Autoresponder

GVO Eresponder

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